{"id":47959,"date":"2022-08-30T02:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/damage-to-main-roads-hampers-pakistan-flood-relief-effort"},"modified":"2022-08-30T02:24:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:24:41","slug":"pakistan-fears-for-areas-cut-off-by-floods-as-damage-to-roads-hampers-relief-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47959","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: fears for areas cut off by floods as damage to roads hampers relief effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PM vows government will not disappoint flood victims as economic losses estimated at more than $10bn<\/p>\n<p>There are growing fears for people living in communities in Pakistan cut off by devastating flooding caused by unusually strong monsoon rains, as damage to major roads hampers the military-led relief effort.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to a badly flooded area in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday, the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, described the rains as \u201cunprecedented in the last 30 years\u201d. \u201cI have never seen such devastation in my life,\u201d he said, vowing that his government \u201cwon\u2019t disappoint\u201d flood victims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/damage-to-main-roads-hampers-pakistan-flood-relief-effort\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM vows government will not disappoint flood victims as economic losses estimated at more than $10bnThere are growing fears for people living in communities in Pakistan cut off by devastating flooding caused by unusually strong monsoon rains, as damage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1709,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-disasters","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47960,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47959\/revisions\/47960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}